Ad Astra - Brad Pitt - Sept 20/2019

can't wait to see this...i do hope it's not a disappointment! I do like Brad though...

 

More like Ad Nauseum. Pitt monologues the entire 2 hours. The production is weak. There are weird scene cuts. There was no character to care about. When there was dialogue it seemed to be improvised with the characters wondering why they were even there. I kept waiting for something to happen. Poor. My BPM never got above 60.

 

Spoiler

I believe the line was something like the "area is too large to pinpoint" - aka the energy surge is huge, they know it's coming from there, but finding the ship itself is too hard without a new signal to zone in on.

 

Fair enough!

 

So a snooze fest ?

 

Yes, but by all accounts a gorgeous one.

And I don’t mean just Brad...

 

Lol. Great opening review lines. Lol!

Shame though

 

Oh god, no. I hate this New Age laconic, repetitive single percussive piano note, linger-on-blowing fields of grass style of filmmaking. If this is another new age touchy feely “Arrival” I’m going to barf. Half these filmmakers have pilfered this Channel/Lexus commercial style of elegiac nothingness. I hate it. It’s a bore.

 

Well, I still hope you see it, so you can tell me what you think.

 

That nailed it. Like they're all trying to be Terrence Malik Jr, crawling back into the womb to rediscover the genesis of genesis. Everything means something so amazing it can't be expressed but only suggested by late afternoon sunlit visuals....

Too bad, I was thinking this might be worth seeing. Though I am spoiled after OUATIH

 

Not much of a story, but a visual feast! I loved it for the set design and for Brad Pitt’s intensity and believability in the role. I have never thought all that much of Brad Pitt before, but it’s two stellar performances in a row within just a couple of months, IMHO.

This is the most enjoyable sci fi film I’ve seen in a long while. I liked this a lot more than either Interstellar or Arrival, both of which ultimately fell flat for me.

I can understand the comparison to Apocalypse Now made earlier in the thread.

Spoiler

Loved the Hudson News on the moon!

 

Are they finally producing Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow"? Now that's a story and it baffles me why such compelling sci fi tales don't get produced.

 

Haven't seen it yet, the reactions so far are fairly negative, the fan score on Rotten Tomatoes currently stands at a dismal 47% after 910 verified reviews.

 

Not that I know of.

 

Pitt carries this film to the halfway point, then no one could carry it past that, because it goes nowhere; an anticlimactic dirge … a "we sat here two hours for that". It could pull a nomination for sound, other than that, a drag … imo.

 

There were so many little set pieces that came and went and added nothing to the film... moon pirates...baboons ... pilot freezing at the controls, to name three

 

My brother went and saw it and said it was 2 hours of his life he can't get back. Told me not to waste mine.

 

I wonder if they didn't give enough of it away in the first one.

Spoiler

What exactly does he not know about what happened in-between falling off the space orbiting platform, and the moment he woke up in...some hospital bed later/elsewhere/else-reality...? Let's make a drinking game out of, "hey, the stars don't match"/"the starts have always been like this, boy"...or, "we have always been at war with East Asia"...

 

No, because Donna Tarrt's "The Goldfinch" is already ON the big screen.

Anyhow, re:"Ad Astra"-I saw the film, very good..loved the space photography.

 

I went to see the piece of dung know as “It: Chapter 2” and realized why I loved OUATIH so much. Yeah, there’s the Manson story he wants
To incorporate, but he just takes his
time focused on crafting these fascinating characters. A film like “It:
chapter 2” is there to cram in bodies and shocks and battles - which is fine on one
Level - but there’s no breathing room for characters leftover. They are drained of humanity by their contrivance And those kind of films unwind in uninteresting and predictable ways for me. When there’s nothing but tired, stock characters on the screen - there’s no life.


Good news:
Dr. Sleep looks excellent!

 

Saw this this afternoon - pretty good if not great. Stunning visuals and sound design. Rather portentous in places but still worth a watch IMO.

 

Saw 'Ad Astra' last night & really dug it. Brad Pitt is killing it this year acting-wise. Movie itself was like a slow dream & took me some time to snap out of it' s depiction of the future.

 

Saw it this evening.

Not great. All the interesting bits (there are few) are just dumped as the film progresses.

Pitt at his most wooden since Interview With A Vampire.

 

Loved the first half, then the insanely stupid {spoiler} yanked me straight out of the film, and it never recovered.

 

There's a line Pitt's character says towards the end of the film, something like "I don't know why I carry on...", and I thought 'that's exactly how I feel watching this crap.'

Spoiler

Precis: Abandoned boy with attachment issues searches for father in space, finds him, space walk tussle ensues, is abandoned again, space walks through an asteroid belt using a door as a shield, returns to earth having saved the solar system, decides humanity is ok after all, pointless doe-eyed girlfriend character forgives all. Total sh*te in other words.